The 2018 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict https://t.co/4H91woKf4r pic.twitter.com/r6kf4CYjQB— CNN (@CNN) October 6, 2018
WNU editor: When I started this blog 11 years ago one of the first posts that I did was on the use of mass rape by Sri Lankan soldiers on Tamils during their civil war. Since then I have lost count on how many posts I have done covering conflicts where sexual crimes were committed on a massive scale. It was also during this time that I began to realize that these crimes should be viewed as a war crime, and punished as such. Today's awarding of the Nobel Prize to Nadia Murad, a 25-year-old from Iraq and Denis Mukwege, 63, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is a small but important step in making the world aware on how horrific these crimes are, and why they must be treated as war crimes. Kudos to the Nobel Committee for their decision on who should be awarded this year. It was one that I did not expect.
